Such Appalling Pathetic Leadership Challenges the Greatest Leader This World Has Ever Witnessed

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www.gnpcb.org/home/tractsWe were reading in the first part of John Chapter 5 of this paralysed man who waited 38 years for his body to be healed, and in the eyes of some he got healed on the wrong day. Can you believe that such men who regarded themselves as religious leaders would act and behave in such an appalling and pathetic way?

What Jesus Christ says and does can upset religious people. Do read the passage in John Chapter 5 and check out the details.

It was the Sabbath Day and you were not allowed to carry your bed on the Sabbath Day, and this man who had been totally healed by Jesus Christ, and who was simply obeying Jesus, got into trouble with some religiously legalistic Jews.

"You can't do that! It doesn't matter who told you. You are not allowed to do what you are doing."

He who healed me told me to take up my bed and walk!

They asked, "Who is it who told you to take up your bed and walk?"

Do you notice they do not mention the healing part? How could any men in a position of supposedly caring concerned leadership omit such an important factor?

Religious people, even those in positions of 'leadership' can sometimes be deaf to what God is saying and blind to what God is doing. As the years go by and as we study the Bible in a more studious and deeper way there are always details that shock and surprise.

When they learned that it was Jesus Christ who spoke these healing words and performed this mighty miracle on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Jesus.

Did they all rejoice and worship God and rush to follow Jesus? No! They began to plot and plan to kill Jesus.

This is the first hint in John of confrontation and opposition. It comes soon!

Why did Jesus get into so much trouble? Why did someone who went about doing good offend so many people so easily? This happened simply because Jesus Christ trampled upon so many of man's sacred traditions!

It can be easy for man to add to what God has said and done. We must beware of doing this.

There were two things that marked out the Jew - the keeping of the Sabbath and circumcision. These marked him out and made him odd, peculiar and different.

These men became very proud of this and took it to extremes.

Sandy Shaw

Sandy Shaw is Pastor of Nairn Christian Fellowship, Chaplain at Inverness Prison, and Nairn Academy, and serves on The Children's Panel in Scotland. He has travelled extensively over these past years teaching, in America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, 12 visits to Israel, and most recently in Uganda and Kenya.
He broadcasts regularly on WSHO radio out of New Orleans, writes a weekly commentary at http://www.studylight.org entitled "Word from Scotland", as well as a weekly newspaper column.
His M.A. and B.D. degrees are from The University of Edinburgh, and he continues to run and exercise regularly.
Sandy Shaw.

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